The cheese and the worms
Subtitle: the cosmos of a sixteenth-century miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg, with a new preface ; translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi
Contributors: Tedeschi, John A., 1931-; Tedeschi, Anne
Edition: Edition with new preface.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781421409887
Subjects: Religious life and customs; History; Christian heresies; Peasants; Church history; Christian heretics; Civilization
Work titles: Formaggio e i vermi
Description: Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This book illustrates the confusing political and religious conditions of the time.
Notes: First English translation published in 1980.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Menocchio; title: 2.The town; title: 3.First interrogation; title: 4."Possessed?"; title: 5.From Concordia to Portogruaro; title: 6."To speak out against his superiors"; title: 7.An archaic society; title: 8."They oppress the poor"; title: 9."Lutherans" and Anabaptists; title: 10.A miller, a painter, a buffoon; title: 11."My opinions came out of my head"; title: 12.The books; title: 13.Readers of the town; title: 14.Printed pages and "fantastic opinions"; title: 15.Blind alley?; title: 16.The temple of the virgins; title: 17.The funeral of the Madonna; title: 18.The father of Christ; title: 19.Judgment day; title: 20.Mandeville; title: 21.Pigmies and cannibals; title: 22."God of nature"; title: 23.The three rings; title: 24.Written culture and oral culture; title: 25.Chaos; title: 26.Dialogue; title: 27.Mythical cheeses and real cheeses; title: 28.The monopoly over knowledge; title: 29.The words of the Fioretto; title: 30.The function of metaphors; title: 31."Master," "steward," and "workers"; title: 32.An hypothesis; title: 33.Peasant religion; title: 34.The soul; title: 35."I don't know"; title: Contents note continued: 36.Two spirits, seven souls, four elements; title: 37.The flight of an idea; title: 38.Contradictions; title: 39.Paradise; title: 40.A new "way of life"; title: 41."To kill priests"; title: 42.A "new world"; title: 43.End of the interrogations; title: 44.Letter to the judges; title: 45.Rhetorical figures; title: 46.First sentence; title: 47.Prison; title: 48.Return to the town; title: 49.Denunciations; title: 50.Nocturnal dialogue with the Jew; title: 51.Second trial; title: 52."Fantasies"; title: 53."Vanities and dreams"; title: 54."Oh great, omnipotent, and holy God..."; title: 55."If only I had died when I was fifteen"; title: 56.Second sentence; title: 57.Torture; title: 58.Scolio; title: 59.Pellegrino Baroni; title: 60.Two millers; title: 61.Dominant culture and subordinate culture; title: 62.Letters from Rome.